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Famous depositions, graded.

Public-record transcripts, run through the free Deposition Grader. No human picks the flags — the same input produces the same output for anyone. The witnesses are famous. The patterns are the ones in your cases.

The episodes

Witnesses examiners still talk about

New episodes when a public-record deposition is worth the read.

The Bill Gates deposition

U.S. v. Microsoft (D.D.C.), 1998 — excerpts read into the trial record, from the DOJ’s own posted file. Features the “depends on what you mean ‘compete’” stretch.
47
exchanges read
1
non-answer
2
evasive answers
2
long narratives
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The Sundar Pichai cross-examination

U.S. v. Google (D.D.C.), trial day 30, October 30, 2023 — from the court’s own transcript, via the RECAP archive. Features the “default can mean so many things” stretch.
76
exchanges read
7
non-answers
0
evasive answers
8
long narratives
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The Eddy Cue examination

U.S. v. Google (D.D.C.), September 26, 2023 — from the court’s own transcript, via the RECAP archive. Apple’s SVP on the Google default deal, from “you’ve been handed a Rosetta Stone” onward. Features the answer that was “a question from a lawyer to answer.”
85
exchanges read
11
non-answers
1
evasive answer
16
long narratives
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The Satya Nadella cross-examination

U.S. v. Google (D.D.C.), trial day 14, October 2, 2023 — from the court’s own transcript, via the RECAP archive. Microsoft’s CEO marched through every failed Bing distribution deal, featuring the “everybody would goose the numbers” beat.
81
exchanges read
8
non-answers
2
evasive answers
13
long narratives
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The Sackler deposition

Kentucky v. Purdue Pharma, 2015 — unsealed 2019, via the UCSF-JHU Opioid Industry Documents Archive. The tolerance-and-dependency stretch, OCR artifacts and all.
28
exchanges read
4
non-answers
4
evasive answers
2
long narratives
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